St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-03


terrlng one mans money into auotehrs pocket
Such a scheme ought not to have the sanction
of law.
Fees for loading wheat through country
elevators ought not to exceed three-fourths
of a cent per bushel, and for cleaning and
loading wheat one and quarter cents per
bushel.
We demand an efficient law for inspection
of weights and measures-vigorously en-
forced.
We call upon the Legislature to inquire into
the reasons for the inability of railroad com
panles to furnish cars to shi1p erS from side
tracks, and also to ask them TO Investigate all
the circumstances connected with the
called wheat blockade, with a view to pre-
venting any similar blockade hereafter.
RAILROADS.
We believe that the present railroad law is
in the main good law if faithfully enforced.
the law should prohibit pooling. We reter-
ate the Sta cement made in declaration of
rights Ito pool is to plumber ana divide"
The law should provide such penalties as will
ehectualy suppress it.
We have u law against discrimination.
There is reason to believe that it is being
daily violated. We ask an investigation into
this greatest of all the evils of the railway
| system. Let Us know whether it is the law
itself that IS at fault or its administration. If
/ the law is defective let 1t be so amended as TO
make discrimination in favor Of either person
| or place as dangerous crime as counterfeit
| ing. If the law has not been faithfully adj
mInistered let US know that also. If those
whose duty il is to protect the people have
| been too weak to combat the power which
! dares to defy the law-let them stand aside.
! II in this contest with an arrogant and deS-
potic power they have deliberately chosen the
| side against the people let US know that too.
We denounce in the strongest terms the
granting of free passes. Let all pay equally
for the use of these tracks-eXcept public
/ pauperS.
We demand of the law-naking power Of
| Minnesota laws that will effectually do away
with the power TO tax the people without
| their consent, now assumed by the Emanagers
OF railway corporations doing business in this
state.
We are willing to pay reasonable rate for
carrying our products to market, ana upon
merchandise and other freghts brought to
our doOr-but we will pay no more What
! ever more than q reasonable rate is eXtOrted
from us we submit to for the time being as
the defenseless individual submits to Il des-
potc power which he is helpless to resist.
SOME RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas, Large sections OF Minnesota are
almost wholly destitute of timber, while bor-
derng on the prairie and adjoining it are vast
forests; and.
| Whereas, Owing to combinations made pos
Sible by railway regulations and railway dis
examinations, the fuel and lumber used by
the dweliers on the prairie is greatly en-
HANGED n cost to the consumer by his being
compelled to pay high freights and to pur-
chase in high-prced and distant markets;
I therefore, be it
Resolved, That we demand of the law
making power that legislai III be had which
shall make the traffic between the timber and
prairie sections of the state free and I'M
restricted by the shortest railway line or lines
and at the smallest cost possible consistent
with justice to the corporation.
Whereas, Because OF railway regulations
and determinations the local markets OF
Western Minnesota are based upon the East
ern markets, less the cost of transportation
by rail and water, via Chicago and the lakes
to the Eastern markets; and
Whereas, The transportation by rail from
the wheat fields of Western and Central Min
neSota to the Eastern markets is 400 miles less
via Duluth and Lake Superior than via Chi
cago and Lake Michigan; be it
Resolved, That we demand of the law
making power of the state that the railway
tracks be opened for direct and unrestricted
traffic between every part of Minnesota and
Duluth, and that such railway regulations be
prescribed will permit the shipper to reach
that port at reasonable rates.
| Whereas, The rate per mile on wheat be-
tween Herman and Minneapolis is more than
five times that between Minneapolis and Chi
cugo and
Whereas, All freight rates to interior
points IL the state vest of ST. Paul and Min
| neapolis are much higher than the rates east
OF those cities. Otter amounting to two, five
, and even ten times the rate where competi-
ton exists, ther efore be it
Resolved, That denOunce the presen:
railway rates on the roads west OF St. Paul,
Z Minneapolis aud Duluth as unreasonable, OPP
preSsive ard eXtOrtionate.
Whereas, BY reason OF easy grades, slight
curvatures, cheap bridging, and the general
, character Of the surface, the actual cost OF
running trans and keeping up the track il
MOST PARTS OF MINNESOTA
is much less than in MANY other states where
the country is rough and mountainous, the
grades heavy, the curves sharp and the bridges
costly; and,
Whereas, According to the report OF the
, railway commissioners there had previous t
June 30, 1883, been granted to railways in
this state lands bonds and other gratuitieS
amounting in the aggregate to S16,633, $50, OF
more than SIC, 400 per mile for every mile Of
7 road then constructed; and,
Whereas, Since June 80, 1888, the average
cost per mile of all roads lu lit in this state il
believed TO have been not more than SlT,00(
per mile; therefore, be il
Resolved, That the railway rates in Min
= nesota to be reasonable rates must be low
rates.
Whereas, The amount of wheat transported
by railways in Minnesota has now reached
vast proportions, and
Whereas, All interests in the state will be
E best subserved by rates US low as may be haC
without injustice to the corporations and
| ketS of the world necesSitates either the
+ cheapening of transportation or the abandon
ment in this state of wheat culture as an arti
Gle of export, and
: Whereas, The cost of transporting whea
| from Minneapolis to Chicago, q distance o.
G 420 miles is only "a cents per buShel.
| Resolved, That we demand Of the legislatur
| the enactment of q law prescribing the follow
| ing rates for transportation of wheat in ca
IL load lots to any point in the state: For thu
| p,1iln mar hon 4 m r. al
:. bushel, for all distances over los miles an
> less than 800 miles from 40 to ~ cents nc
Il Cording to distances, for all distances over 80
: and less than 400 miles from : Il TO go cent
o per bushel according TO distance, for all dis
= tanceS over 400 miles rates based on the fore
&c going The shipper to have the right t
y choose the route over which the Shipmen
e shall be made; and where that route require
e the use of the tracks of more than one raj
5 way company the wheat to be transferre
II without unloading from the car in which til
IL | shipment was fist made at a cost not to e1
: ! coed 81 for each transfer.
II We are confident that with the foregoin
o proposition Incorporated into efficient law
u new life would be injected into the agricu
tural interests of the state. every legitimta
II | industry would be favoraby affected, and th
- corporations themselves in the end benefited
20 Not only would freight rates be great
y | cheapened but what is of far more conS'
| uuence the markets would be released frol
=
5 Grated monopolies which under the preseI
n system dictate prices, plumber the people an
W divide the Spoils.
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